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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

As a followup to my post about the use of miniatures with RPGs, Jamie over at A Fistful of Coppers made me aware of "washer miniatures." He showed me a link to a post about this cheaper alternative to traditional minis.

I find this to be a really interesting alternative to traditional metal/plastic/paper minis! The only thing is, the article only mentions the use of images cut out of Magic: The Gathering cards as a means of putting images on the washers. I believe that one could manage to generate some correctly-sized images using images taken from the Web manipulated using Photoshop. Granted, that might be a bit more time consuming. But it's still possible.

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I've been debating and experimenting with minis off and on in my S&W game using lead and paper. The washer idea seems interesting. It could be a bit time consuming gathering printable fantasy artwork. I might experiment with this just to see how it goes.

Oh, dammit! I forgot to put the link to Tokentool in that post. It's a basic little Java program that is meant to be used with an online tabletop suite called MapTools, but can easily be used to 'cut' circular tokens from jpegs and the like. You just cut out a token with, say, a 300 pixel diameter, make a new Photoshop image that's 8/5x11 and 300 pixels per inch and voila! Instant 1-inch circular tokens!